Google wants AI language in 1,000 dialects

Google last week unpacked a host of critical new artificial intelligence (AI) advancements, particularly in the areas around generative AI such as language analysis, text-to-video, and assisted writing capabilities. Along with other enticing developments around ethical AI, Google revealed it would be working on AI in at least one thousand languages going forward. At the Google AI event held at the company's Pier 57 offices in New York City on November 2, the global technology titan highlighted areas of focus to include democratizing AI development pathways, "building for everyone" responsible, controlled models which can identify generative AI -- unsupervised artificial intelligence learning algorithms that can create new digital audio, text, imagery, video, or code -- along with advancing language translation, disaster management, and health AI. Google shared the first rendering of a video that shares both of the company's complementary text-to-video research approaches -- Imagen Video and Phenaki. The interest of global communities was piqued by the announcement that language abilities are being developed using AI for the world's one thousand most spoken languages, showcasing another major area of artificial intelligence focus as tech giants compete to dominate the internet's next battleground.